The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-08


Incorporators: S. L. Spears, G.. S.
Walker, F. Pashack, j. 1. Nicely, F. I.
Parker, j. R. Adair, j. NJ. Cochran, M. f.
Walker, A. r. Alsup, o. Voglesang.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPOSITS.
lands sl5,346 %
sales ..''.......... ................. $3.50 50
lands ,s',,.,..'''... 1921 81
Sale of public domain ................ 2,12J 81
Lunstic asylum land Gales and interest. 2i4 6S
Deaf and Dumb lum land sales int. % ~
Blind asylum land sales and Interest,". - eS
Orphan asylum land sales and interest. % 20
University land sales and interest 3,775 40
Available University fund. .............. w! w
Permanent University fund .......... 2,S13 4S
General revenue Observation-Disclosures. $500 90
The Texas Trunk railroad filed its re-
port yesterday, showing capital stock
paid in, $75O,OOO: Indebtedness, $2,971;
due the company, $1,570,S0; receipts,
$5O701.94; expenses, $3S,076.S1; miles
run, 38,024; men employed, IS. This is
the last of the railroad reports.
Comptroller Mccall yesterday made a
ruling that unorganized counties cannot
be taxed to pay for the building of court
house in the organized county to which
they are attached for judicial purposes.
The comptroller yesterday placed in
the hands of the attorney general, for
legal proceedings, two accounts against
l. L. Elder, ex.tax collector of Karnes
county-one for balance on his 1885 roll,
amounting to $912.99, and the other for
balance on his 1886 roll, amounting to
$5170.
From Fridays Daily.
OH ~
$4,000, and disbursements $4,000.
Comptroller's deposits yesterday were
$7,133.73, all revenue.
The following monthly reports of tax
collectors were received by the comp
troller yesterday, from Travis, Hays and
Zavalla counties.
Governor Ross yesterday issued par
don to Charles E. Sedgewick, convicted in
Grayson county last month of forgery
and sentenced to two years. The petition
was favorably endorsed by the district
judge, county attorney, clerk, sheriff,
members of the jury and number of
citizens. The facts of the case seem to
have been that Sedgewick had been OF a
two weeks drunk, during which time he
had taken morphine as well as whisky.
| While in this condition the offense was
committed, and the recommendations were
based largely upon his being morally ir-
re jponsible.
johnson Trigg, convicted in the district
court of Travis county for perjury and
sentenced to five years, was committed to
three years; and Henry Grimmage, sen.
fenced for life, from Wharton county in
1876, for murder, was commuted to TWEEN
| - Tn oh af L.
| Judges and prosecuting attorneys recon-
mend the communication.
| Chartered yesterday: The Teutonia, of
Galveston. Incorporators j. d. Sawyer,
f. d. Harrar, H. Baetjer, John Wrestling,
j. S. Southw1ck, j. Kerr and P. So sson.
The STATEMAN made allusion yesterday
to ruling of the comptroller regarding
the right to tax unorganized counties to
build court houses in organized counties
to which they are. attached. The subject ID
new one and an important one, and the
full statement of the case by the comp
troller is we'll worth presenting. He gives
his opinion as follows:
AUSTIN, TEX, November 80, 1887.
Hon j. F. Cunningham, County Judge of Jones
| County, Anson, Texas
Ny Dear Sir-Replying to your favor
l
of the 9th inst, asking the opinion of
this department, whether the commission
ers court of Jones county have authority
| to levy a taX-for the erection of court
house and Jail in Jones county-upon the
property of residents in Stonewall county,
said Stonewall county being unorganized
and attached to the organized county of
Jones for judicial purposes" l have to
advise you as folk vs.:
The liability to taxation of all prop
erty, real and personal, in an unorganized
county-belonging to residents of such
unorganized county, as also personal
property belonging to non-residents-by
the organized county, to which
the unorganized county is at
tached for Judicial purposes, is
we'll settled by former rulings of this de-
partment, and recently established by a
decision of the supreme court of this
state, in the case of the Llsno Cattle com
pany vs. Taught, on appeal from Scurry
| county. This department has, however,
uniformly ruled that the organized county
can only levy tax for general county
revenue purposes upon property-as
above indicated-situated in an morgan
lied county thereto attached.
Chapter 8, laws of 1881, the same being
ian act authorizing the county commits
sioners' courts of the several counties of
! this state to issue bonds for the erection
of court house, and to levy tax to pay
for the same" in section 2 thereof pro-
vides as follows: "The commissioner S
court of the county shall levy an annual
ad valorem tax on the property in said
! county, sufficient to pay the interest
and create sinking fund for
the redemption of said bonds,
not to exceed one-fourth of one per cent.
for any one year.
1t will be observed that the levy of the
tax referred to in said section ? is re-
stricted to an annual advalorem tax on
the property in said county.
You are, therefore, advised that the
commissioners court OF Jones county